Liz Kendall: 'Technology can stave off the crisis in the NHS'

Remote monitoring and use of patient data in disease prevention could give sufferers back their lives and save NHS vast sums, says Labour's Liz Kendall

"Would you like an easy peeler?" Liz Kendall asks me, pulling out a massive bag of satsumas. The job, says the shadow minister for care and older people, and the Labour candidate for Leicester West, is extremely unhealthy, though that's not the biggest problem with working in politics.

First elected as an MP in 2010, Kendall has already been disciplined for tweeting in the House of Commons and for passing a bottle of water to a colleague doing her maiden speech, and complains about the inefficient and outdated Parliamentary conventions - including the 40-minute ritual of physically walking through the lobby to vote. The process would be far more efficient voting electronically, she says, while the order of speakers could also be published online so members didn't have to wait four hours to talk for five minutes.